Oman Drilling Project: Ancient seabed holds secrets in search for life on other planets
The Oman Drilling Project is a collaborative multinational investigation of the Samail Ophiolite, the world’s largest, best-exposed, and most-studied subaerial…
Microbe Monday: The Hottest Life on Earth!
It’s Microbe Monday! Life doesn’t get much hotter than this! Today we’re looking at the current world champion hyperthermophile: Methanopyrus kandleri….
Microbe Monday: Hot threads of the Deep
It’s Microbe Monday! Today we’re taking a deep-dive into the life of this unique microbe: Caldithrix abyssi. This little fella…
June 15: Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA)
Reddit Ask Me Anything session Friday, June 15 at 2pm EDT! Right now, we are towards the end of Expedition…
Magneto-tastic Microbe Monday!
It’s Microbe Monday! Microbes are capable of many incredible things, including the ability to surprise us! Today we’re taking a…
Microbe Monday: Sulfolobus solfataricus
Howdy! It’s Microbe Monday! Today, we are presenting you not one, but two microbes! A sulfate-reducing Archaea and a spindle-shape virus!…
Microbe Monday: Archaeoglobus sulfaticallidus
It’s Microbe Monday! On Expedition 376, we are hoping to find microbes living in one of the most extreme environments…
Brothers, Boats and Balrogs
Nō te waka rangahau e tere ai i runga i te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa ki ngā whenua o te ao, tēnā koutou…
Exp 375 – Seafloor Observatories: Lifetime Beyond the Drilling
And we’re done! This expedition was a great success, we fulfilled all our objectives and then some. Watch co-chiefs…
Thin, but not too thin!
Thin sections show us what is hiding inside the rocks Sometimes the secrets to why a fault is moving is…